{"id":43,"date":"2003-03-10T23:26:25","date_gmt":"2003-03-10T23:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:07:57","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:07:57","slug":"our_phoneybaloney_jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Our Phoney-Baloney Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instapundit<\/a> carries a Washington Post story<\/a> on a Democratic representative’s anti-Semitic meltdown:<\/p>\n

By Spencer S. Hsu
\nWashington Post Staff Writer
\nMonday, March 10, 2003; 3:22 PM <\/p>\n

Jewish organizations condemned Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.) today for delivering what they said were anti-Semitic remarks at an anti-war forum in Reston, in which he suggested that American Jews are responsible for pushing the country to war with Iraq and that Jewish leaders could prevent war if they wanted…<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hey, isn’t this this<\/a> guy?:<\/p>\n

WHY MY OSTENSIBLE PARTY, THE DEMOCRATS, WILL NOT BE ABLE TO USE BUSH’S CORPORATE HISTORY AGAINST HIM<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/i>CTD…<\/b>From today’s NY Times<\/p>\n

The bill, which has been vigorously opposed by consumer-rights groups, had long been the top legislative priority of credit card companies and some banks, which insist that many debtors abuse the bankruptcy laws to escape debts they should be able to pay. The companies sharply stepped up campaign contributions to members of Congress in recent years as they promoted the legislation.<\/p>\n

Among the biggest beneficiaries would be the MBNA Corporation of Delaware, which describes itself as the world’s biggest independent credit card company. Ranked by employee donations, MBNA was the largest corporate contributor to President Bush’s 2000 campaign.<\/p>\n

The company has also recently acknowledged that it gave a $447,000 debt-consolidation loan on what critics viewed as highly favorable terms to a crucial House supporter of the bill only four days before he signed on as a lead sponsor of the legislation in 1998. Both MBNA and the lawmaker, Representative James P. Moran Jr., Democrat of Virginia, have denied that there was anything improper about the loan.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m too disgusted to comment.<\/p>\n

Posted by Armed Liberal at 09:27 AM<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love this guy!! He’s better than Governor LePetomaine! (and you have to know your French vaudeville history to get that character’s name)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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